Howdy-doody, there. ::-/
I've not posted for awhile; I've been busy with other stuff... But I like this board, and I wanted to resurrect this moribund thread. I, too, respect the score for this movie, but for different reasons than the OP had in mind. The score for the original, classic, and only legitimate "Sleuth" was happy, peppy... Grabbed us at the outset and sucked us right in. It let us know right off the bat that the next 90 minutes or so would be like a dose of adderall with two cups of espresso; and that we'd need both, and something more, to even half-ass keep up with the proceedings.
By contrast, the remake has an opening theme that comes off like a dirge. It's designed to make the viewer, and listener, want to weep. And I did. I wept buckets.
I wept over the loss of Laurence Olivier. I wept over Michael Caine, (a brilliant actor, and a gift from God, who was eaten by the shark in "Jaws: The Revenge," without even realizing it, and without the character he portrayed having to suffer a similar fate;) I wept because I paid 3 clams, and time I could've spent having a colonoscopy and getting diagnosed with cancer, for the rental. I wept because I watched the thing instead of wanking my crank over jpegs of Ernest Borgnine. I wept because sick dogs, in their wisdom, crawl under porches and die, while supporters of rotten, almost-straight-to-dvd celluloid, upload vomit like I prefer this version too- mainly because of the better direction, and the lack of the light comedic tone the st took. This was more serious, superb.
God, almighty. I kind of hope the world gets struck by a comet tonight. Maybe I'm just drunk. >:-[
Terence
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